Improvement in tea-kettles



PATENT OFFICE.

CHAUNCEY D. WOODRUFF, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN TEA-KETTLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,576, dated March 4,1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GHAUNOEY D. IVOOD- RUFF, of Toledo, in the county ofLucas and in the State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Tea-Kettles; and do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theacconmanying drawing making a part of this specitication,inwhich Figurel is a perspective view of myimproved kettle. Fi 2 is a vertical centralsection of the same, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the eardetached.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of thefigures.

As ordinarily constructed, the parts of a tea-kettle most liable tocorrosion and injury arising therefrom are the ears to which the bail ishinged, and the contiguous portions of the cover, and the openinginclosed by the same.

To render these points as durable as are other parts of the device isthe design of my invention, which consists, principally, in protectingthe rim of the cover and the edge of the opening inclosed thereby bymeans of rum-corrosive metal, substantially as and for the purposehereinafter specified. It consists, further, in the-peculiarconstruction of the bail-ear and its attachment to or upon thekettle-breast, substautiall y as and for the purpose hereinafter shown.

In the annexed drawing, A represents a kettle of usual form, providedupon or within its breast with an opening, 15, which is inclosed bymeans of acover, 0. The edge of the metal of the opening B is inclosedby means of a strip of zinc, l), or other suitable nm-corrosive metal,which is doubled over said edge and soldered upon the upper and lowersides of the metal plate that forms the breast. The rim 0 of the cover 0is also formed of or from zinc,orits equivalent; and, if desired, theedge of said cover may be protected in the same manner as in case of theedge of the opening B. As seen in Fig. 2,

the ears E are each constructed of or from two pieces of metal, whichare folded together and combined in the same manner as are sheets ofwriting-paper. The folded ends of the pieces 0 and 0 being uppermost,the ends of the outer piece 0 are turned outward horizontally inopposite directions so as to furnish a bearing for the ear upon theupper side of the breast, while the ends of the inner piece 0 are passedthrough a corresponding slot provided in said breast, and then turnedoutward in opposite directions against the lower side of the same, so asto lock said our in place. From the breast upward the pieces 0 and c aresecured together, while their angular ends are fastened to said breast,and the opening through the same closed by means of solder. Suitableopenings are provided in and through the upper ends of the ears for thepassage of the rivets F, upon which the bail G is pivoted or hinged.

For use of the trade, the ears would be constructed in the form shown inFig. 3, and, while as easily attached as are any new in use, wouldpossess greater strength and durability.

Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, whatI claim as new 1. In a tea-kettle, an inclosing-strip of 'noncorrosivemetal applied to and embracing the edge of the eover opening or of thecover, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a tea kettle, a cover having its rim constructed of or fromnon-corrosive metal, substantially as and for the purpose shown.

3. The ears E, constructed as shown, and

capable of being combined with a kettle, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I

